Wallsendmag

Keep up the great work Greg[/member] and NUST And ignore the haters, fucking idiots! People have the right to question the Trust in the correct way without you labelling them as idiots, especially considering it's a straight toss up between you and Samptime for the boards biggest idiot of the year, his constant, pathetic defence of Bruce and you pretending to be some sort of ITK, telling all and sundry the takeover was 100% going ahead for months on end. My personal view on the Trust, as a former member is that they tend to make loads of noise and bluster when an opportunity arises to really get the fans charged up about something. Last year it was Rafa leaving. They bombarded twitter with a huge recruitment drive, added a few thousand extra members then went very quiet. Repeat this year with the takeover talk. Loads of noise in the spring time, another big recruitment drive, then quiet again. They’ve done some good things, no doubt. Getting those lads off the charges for the carry on at Southampton was admirable but as the biggest football supporters Trust in the UK (?) they don't pull their weight enough on other pressing issues and they go too quiet for too long at times. Their questioning of Masters was weak and didn't really put him under any scrutiny when everyone knew he was up to no good, obviously moreso since then with the current big 6 of the 2 Manchester teams, 3 major London teams and Liverpool wanting a control of English football his motives are apparent. As for the money in their bank account. I remember a lot of noise from quite a lot of people to donate a share of it to the Food Bank to help out families who've fallen on hard times this year, rather than sitting in an account earning jack shit in interest but they didn't want to know. Should have been put to a vote amongst it's members imo, it's their money after all really. Anyway ultimately we all want the same thing so I hope they can be a success in the name of NUFC, but I'll admit, based on what I've seen so far, I am sceptical. I'll not post about them anymore on this thread as the NUST have their own thread on hear so this conversation should really be on there.

Martyn was at least as good as Flowers like. Certainly won far more England caps. Seaman would have made a huge difference and would have won us the league imo.

Think they had their chance to really make their mark when they were given the opportunity to grill Masters but I think most people were left a bit disappointed by the outcome there. Tbf NUFC were always legally obliged to refund season ticket holders anyway and the Premier League PPV was doomed to failure before it got going due to the amount of objections to it right across the country. Good luck to them but it's not something I'd consider signing up to again.

Don't know. I joined up about 18 months ago. Didn't renew my 1 year subscription but they still gave me voting rights at the last round of elections. Does anyone know what's happened to the £40k or whatever they've taken from the 15,000 lifetime and 1 year memberships they sold?

The goalkeeper was a surprise!

I think they'd be quite happy to be the next Leicester City. Similar sized clubs (traditionally Derby probably slightly bigger) from the same part of the country. They've certainly got a good starting point with the stadium and decent sized fanbase. They'll look at what the likes of Leicester, Wolves and possibly Southampton are doing and think that there's no reason they can't be doing similar in a few years time.

Aye it is

Despite every game being live on TV I've watched us only once this season. It's too draining, and frankly watching a football match when only one team is trying to play football isn't really my cup of tea. I voted Souness as our worst manager in the other thread purely because he took over a really good side and ruined it but this waste of space runs him close. If every football team played the game the same way as he likes to, football wouldn't even be in the top 10 most popular sports.

The least of our problems.

Definitely Souness.

The Teesside teams in the Northern League such as Guisborough, Billingham etc are allowed 300 but the Tyneside clubs are only allowed 150. Heaton Stan pushing to get it increased and they have the support of all the other NL clubs in the Tyneside area.

Fully deserved goal. We've offered nothing.

Disgusting team selection and tactics from the useless fat coward.

Bruce has blew his lines here. Ideal opportunity to go attacking and smash them with them being low on confidence and put himself in the frame for the Man Utd job next week and he picks that team.

Merseyside Derby usually tends to be a bit boring and always seems to lack that bit of nastiness that you get in a proper Derby. Old Firm is usually more entertaining just for the pure hatred but because there's no fans there tomorrow that won't be there and that'll take everything away from the occasion as, let's face it, they're two shite teams. If fans had been allowed I'd have watched the Old Firm but I don't think the Merseyside Derby will miss the fans as much and the football on show will be of a far higher quality so I'll watch that.

Benefitted massively from having the most unselfish player ever playing in the same team and supplying the bullets for him. Couldn't even manage a goal every other game after he left despite playing in arguably the best team in the world at the time.

Surprised if he's said that but Beardsley has form for saying strange things from time to time. Shearer, Ferdinand, Lineker and Rush were all far better strikers than Andy Cole for starters.

What a load of bullshit. Ferdinand and Shearer were far better players. Only an idiot would disagree.

Could stand where he wanted really. Beardsley would always find him.

Also used to miss time his jump when going up for a header about 3 seconds too early so he was already back on the ground when the ball arrived in the air to him. Used to be funny to watch though! Ferdinand & Shearer were of a similar height to him amd were both lethal in the air because they could time their jump properly.

Scored 11 brilliant goals for NUFC and 57 tap ins courtesy of Beardsley. Ferdinand and Shearer who came in after he was sold were far superior players. He was a right huffy twat as well.

A lot are happy to pay £10 for exactly that in a crap League Cup game. Aye but at least they're attending the match in person for their tenner. For a huge % of the fanbase the actual match itself isn't a huge priority and plays second fiddle to having a few pints, meeting mates or simply just getting out the house. He's talking about the Carabao streams this season. Did many people actually buy them? Aside from that around 35k people have already paid to watch this match in the form of buying a season ticket!

A lot are happy to pay £10 for exactly that in a crap League Cup game. Aye but at least they're attending the match in person for their tenner. For a huge % of the fanbase the actual match itself isn't a huge priority and plays second fiddle to having a few pints, meeting mates or simply just getting out the house.